Survivor

Activist and survivor Fatou Baldeh on fighting to eradicate female genital mutilation

A leading women's rights campaigner has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how she was subjected to female genital mutilation at the age of just seven in her home country of The Gambia.…

2 months ago

by Abiodun Ogundairo

Haiti gang violence survivor: ‘I have lost hope’

Haiti's main international airport in capital Port-au-Prince reopened on Wednesday to commercial flights, the interim government said. It was forced to close in November, for the second time this year, due to…

5 months ago

News

‘We need to reframe the language’ on FGM as sexual assault, survivor Leyla Hussein says

Leyla Hussein is a psychotherapist who now specialises in supporting survivors of sexual abuse. She grew up in Somalia, where she was subjected to FGM at the age of seven.…

5 months ago

World

Pakistani polio survivor becomes social innovator

Zahida Hameed Qureshi contracted polio when she was five months old. But she overcame all challenges and discrimination, and now even runs an NGO for people with disabilities.…

8 months ago

Science & Tech

‘Apocalyptic’ scenes as Lebanon reels from trauma and rage

Lebanese citizens have opened their homes to strangers as the devastation of Tuesday's blast set in. Aside from the trauma, there's anger and rage. "Everyone knows someone who has been hit," says…

5 years ago

News·World

Osun’s Fight Against FGM (Part 2)

Earlier in their marriage, sex was a battleground and she found it difficult to be intimate. It wasn’t enjoyable for her and it really hurt. Their husbands couldn’t understand it and they…

7 years ago

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